{"product_id":"snow-country-sebastian-faulks-9781786330192","title":"Snow Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe epic new love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks, and his most powerful novel since BIRDSONG\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A fine and profoundly intelligent novel, written by an author who balances big ideas with human emotion. Wistful, yearning and wise' ELIZABETH DAY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Faulks's most poignant love story yet' ANTONY BEEVOR, author of Stalingrad\n\u003cbr\u003e_____________________\n\u003cbr\u003e1914- Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters Delphine, a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton feels himself blessed. Until his country declares war on hers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1927- For Lena, life with a drunken mother in a small town has been impoverished and cold. She is convinced she can amount to nothing until a young lawyer, Rudolf Plischke, spirits her away to Vienna. But the capital proves unforgiving. Lena leaves her metropolitan dream behind to take a menial job at the snow-bound sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1933- Still struggling to come terms with the loss of so many friends on the Eastern Front, Anton, now an established writer, is commissioned by a magazine to visit the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place of healing, on the banks of a silvery lake, where the depths of human suffering and the chances of redemption are explored, two people will see each other as if for the first time.\n\u003cbr\u003e_____________________\n\u003cbr\u003eSweeping across Europe as it recovers from one war and hides its face from the coming of another, SNOW COUNTRY is a landmark novel of exquisite yearnings, dreams of youth and the sanctity of hope. In elegant, shimmering prose, Sebastian Faulks has produced a work of timeless resonance.\n\u003cbr\u003e_____________________\n\u003cbr\u003e'Overpowering and beautiful ... Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing' SIMON SCHAMA on Birdsong\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sebastian Faulks","offers":[{"title":"Fair","offer_id":46144397017331,"sku":"8880002630618","price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781786330192.jpg?v=1725012505","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/snow-country-sebastian-faulks-9781786330192","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}